The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar: Volume 23 [Complete] by Seiichi Takayama

Author:Seiichi Takayama
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf

“So? What’d you say?” the pretty young woman in front of Ephelia asked, munching on a biscuit and getting crumbs everywhere. Her unconcerned tone and expression communicated that she had no actual interest in the affairs of others. But even though such an attitude would typically be a detriment, she couldn’t deny that the woman was a beauty in her own right. In fact, she even had a bewitching air about her. “Her beauty is so genuine she doesn’t even have to work at it,” Ephelia idly thought.

The woman in question was Kristina, and she’d been Ephelia’s longtime friend since they were schoolmates at the vaxt many years ago.

“I politely turned him down,” Ephelia replied.

“What?! Why’d you do that? Lord Nozomu’s a good kid! He’s cool too, like his dad!” Kristina’s older sibling Albertina shouted. In appearance they were identical, but the way they expressed themselves made it easy to tell them apart.

“Well, I have to agree it’s a bit of a waste. You could’ve married into royalty, you know? Lived the good life.” Kristina smirked, resting her chin in her hands. Though she hadn’t shown much interest previously, she now looked like she was enjoying herself. “Typical Kristina,” Ephelia thought. “You haven’t changed a bit.”

“I mean, I’m almost double his age!” Ephelia argued.

“But he said that didn’t matter to him, right? So what’s the problem?” Kristina replied.

“Yeah, yeah! There’s no problem at all!” Albertina added.

“There’s a big problem! An old woman like me is wholly unsuited to be Lord Nozomu’s bride!” Ephelia smacked the table as she made her appeal. She was already going to be twenty-six this year. In twenty-first-century Japan that would’ve been a suitable age, perhaps even considered a bit young for marriage, but sadly this was the fifteenth century BCE. Here, she was considered much too old to still be single.

“I mean, you’re plenty attractive, Ephy, and popular within the royal court too. Even if you couldn’t be his formal wife, I don’t really see a problem with you being Lord Nozomu’s concubine, at the very least.”

“I could never... Someone like me could never...”

“Okay, if you give me any more of that nonsense I’m going to get upset.”

“Huh?”

“Do you think I don’t know? Advisor Jörgen’s grandson Gendo, who’s well on his way to becoming a government official. The late Rasmus’s grandson Mustafa, who’s rapidly making a name for himself as the Horn Clan’s second-in-command. Lady Fagrahvél’s cousin Barr, who just got assigned to lead a newly formed tank unit.”

Ephelia’s face stiffened when she heard those names.

“Oh yeah, and recently there’s also been Babel, who was, surprisingly enough, promoted to frontier commander, right?”

“H-How did you know they...” The names of those four were all familiar to her. Each and every one of them had proposed to Ephelia. She hadn’t told a soul about any of them. She didn’t want it to affect their honor, so she thought she’d kept it secret.

“Hee hee, there’s nothing I don’t know about the royal court,” Kristina said with a smug grin.

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